Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋 (I definitely prefer more descriptions, explicitness and emotional factors in my scenes)
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑 (about a page)
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥 (basically one full scene and then a few more implied scenes/fade to black)
Humor: Yes! Lots of great banter and silliness
Perspective: third person from the heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together: Not too long in...about 13% or chapter 2 (of 21)
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: No
Format: voluntarily read an advanced reader copy through NetGalley in e-book form
Why I chose this book: I think I was emailed from NetGalley that it was available. I have liked Waters writing before in a historical setting and was curious to try a contemporary!

Should I read in order?
I think this is a stand alone?

Basic plot:
Charlotte plans on spending the holidays (which she hates) with her sister but when she meets a stripping reindeer her holiday adventures change track.

Give this a try if you want:
- contemporary romance
- holiday romance
- London setting
- American heroine / English hero pairing
- bit of a grumpy heroine that hates Christmas
- artist heroine (former child actress)
- low steam – I believe 1 light scene and some mentions/alluded to scenes

Ages:
- heroine is 29, hero is 33

First line:
Whenever Charlotte was feeling particularly gloomy about the state of the world, finding herself at the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport inevitably made it worse.

My thoughts:
This one was really cute! A bit of a grumpy heroine that hates holidays meets someone that entertains society with holiday cheer. This had some really great banter and humor and just such a sweet falling for each other.

I do wish Waters had more steam! I’m always left wanting a bit more in the bedroom, or more tension and longing between the mains. But I find her books generally really sweet and enjoyable and always delightfully humorous!

Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: 3
Average rating: 4 stars
Favorite book: To Love and to Loathe

Quotes Any mistakes or typos are my own! Please note this was taken from an ARC version and might be different from finished published book

“Don’t tell me,” she said, pressing her finger to her chin in thought. “You were the alleged son of the vicar, but in actuality the natural son of the gentleman of the house – he paid for you to go to Oxford, so that you might make something of yourself, even though he couldn’t acknowledge you as his own.”
“I didn’t go to Oxford.”
“But the rest is true?”
“Er. No. Do you read a lot of novels?”
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Graham’s eyes flicked up to the rearview mirror to look at his sister. “We met earlier this evening – she was hiding in the nook behind the stairs.”
“Ha! Graham’s spot!” Eloise sad, laughing gleefully. “Was he absolutely awful to you?” she asked Charlotte. “He’s so possessive of that goddamn bench.”
“No, he just started stripping.”
“Graham, what the hell?” Eloise braced her arms on the back of his seat. “Do you want to get arrested?”
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“Have you considered making a pinup calendar of you dressed as various reindeer?” she asked, still sketching busily. “You can sell copies as a fundraiser.”
“If I’d known my stripping out of that reindeer suit would have this affect on you, I’d have been more careful not to inflame your lust.”
---
“I’m here for three more weeks. Meaning that if you’d like to fuck me somewhere that isn’t going to cause you to need knee replacement surgery later, your dates are limited.” She kept her voice light, almost dismissive, as though what they were doing was no different from any of the other casual flings she’d had in recent years – fun, yes. But not something that mattered.
“Is this how you attract all of your men?” he asked. “Lure them in with sexy discussion of their rapidly failing bodies?”
“No,” she said, gleeful at the realization she was about to share. “Because I’ve never slept with someone over thirty before.”
This did nearly make him crash the car.
“You cannot be serious,” he said, jerking the steering wheel so that the car swerved back into its lane. “You’re twenty-nine – have you been trolling the local secondary schools for dates?”
 

Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.

- parental death remembered
Author content warnings? I didn’t see anything listed

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex aspects, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:

 
Safe sex: 

  condoms mentioned 

 
Hows the consent? 

  It’s good 

 
Pregnancy/children in story? (Please note this is the best to my memory/note taking. If you see something I missed please feel free to message!) 

  There is a child in the story (the heroine’s niece I believe) that has some minor page time. The heroine doesn’t particularly want children. 

 
I might have missed some kisses/alluded to mentions but overall I think there was just one main scene??
59% - fingering for her, sex (it’s about a page)